Supreme Court Weighs In On Controversial Voter ID Law [Wise Latina & Two More Leftists Dissent]

CBSNews ^ | October 18, 2014

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October 18, 2014 Supreme Court Weighs In On Controversial Voter ID Law

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election.

A majority of the justices rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring voters to produce certain forms of photo identification in order to cast ballots. Three justices dissented.

Voter ID laws in the spotlight as midterm elections near The law was struck down by a federal judge last week, but a federal appeals court had put that ruling on hold. The judge found that roughly 600,000 voters, many of them black or Latino, could be turned away at the polls because they lack acceptable identification. Early voting in Texas begins Monday.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund played a key role in the case. The group's president, Sherrilyn Ifill, believes that the widespread voter fraud that the law is intended to fight is a myth.

"I think this lays bare this myth about what voter ID is really premised on," she told CBS News after last week's ruling. "It's premised on a disenfranchisement scheme and not on protecting the ballot."

The Supreme Court's order was unsigned, as it typically is in these situations. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, saying they would have left the district court decision in place.

"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters," Ginsburg wrote in dissent.

[txhurl]

Both Hutchison and Cornyn gave glowing adulation about this Corpus latrina judgette’s confirmation in 2011. The link is near if anybody needs me to dig for it.

Amnesty showed us its face then and now.

Bummer for them the recent turn of infectious events.

[txhurl]

That would be the version of the law for all the states to replicate, imho.

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Yes, Thank You Indiana for showing us the way!

Go Hoosiers!

[Mr Rogers]

I enjoyed this comment at the original site:

“Cheap tequila - requires ID. Voting - meh.”

[BobL]

“Both Hutchison and Cornyn gave glowing adulation about this Corpus latrina judgette’s confirmation in 2011.”

Nothing personal, since I don’t know you or whether you voted, but to hear Republicans complain about Obama judges after MILLIONS OF THEM sit out election after election waiting for the next coming of Reagan, rather than holding their noses...just makes me chuckle.

[trebb]

The judge found that roughly 600,000 voters, many of them black or Latino, could be turned away at the polls because they lack acceptable identification. I bet every last one has good enough ID to cash a check.

The judge got someone to plug data into the global warming hockey stick program - the 600,000 potential disenfranchised come from an area where there are only 200,000 minorities - it would be really bad in a high-density minority area...

[maine-iac7]

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